Welcome to Sudden Death ฝ่าวิกฤตนาทีเป็นนาทีตาย (2020) [บรรยายไทย]

If your answer is "Yes!" to the never-asked question, "Should there be a stand-alone sequel to Sudden Death, 25 years later?", then Welcome to Sudden Death is the movie for you. It's almost the same movie, only basketball instead of hockey, and Michael Jai White instead of Jean-Claude Van Damme. Only now, the cliches and bad dialogue that were at least good for mindless entertainment in the 1990s are so played out, one can't be blamed for experiencing deja vu while watching this. The dialogue is excruciatingly bad. The characters are one-dimensional, and even that's pushing it. The bad guy is named "Alpha," and his team of other bad guys and ladies answer to other code names inspired by the letters of the Greek alphabet. The bad guy's trademark move is to constantly wipe his nose, despite no other evidence of either a cold or cocaine addiction. 

There are attempts at humor that fail to sound like something from any of the Bad Boys movies. The conclusion of the basketball game going on in the background is more interesting than the direct action of the movie. Admittedly, many of the fight scenes are entertaining, but it's impossible to tune out everything else that simply isn't working in this movie. Also, not to nitpick, but unlike in hockey, there's no sudden death overtime in pro basketball, which eliminates the play on words of the title, but that's the least of the problems here.